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Index
Foreword: Filling in the Cave
Acknowledgments
Dirty Mindedness: An Introduction to Porn – Philosophy for Everyone
PART I LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! SUNDRY SEXY THOUGHTS
1 The Jizz Biz and Quality of Life
Eeew! Sucks to be a Porn Star!
Get Out Of My Bed!
Ways of Valuing Lives
Climax: Happy Slaves, Oppression, and Quality of Life
Afterglow
2 Strange Bedfellows: The Interpenetration of Philosophy and Pornography
Have You Anything Philosophical?
A Deeper Exploration
The Lay of Aristotle
Tying Up Loose Ends
PART II THE PORNOGRAPHIC MIND: Psychology and Porn
3 Yes.Yes! Yes!! What Do Mona’s Moans Reveal About Her Sexual Pleasure?
What Do Mona’s Moans Reveal About Her Sexual Pleasure?
Female Porngasm is More Interesting to Study than Male Porngasm
Most Porn is Designed to Activate and Appeal to Men’s Short-Term Sexual Strategies
Most Female Porngasms are Fake
Our Study
Results
But Female Porn Stars Do Love the Sex!
Correspondence Bias
Error Management Theory
Conclusions
4 Pornography as Simulation
The Tools of Folk Psychology
The Modern Perversion of Mental Simulation
Conclusions and Assessments
5 Brothers’ Milk: The Erotic and the Lethal in Bareback Pornography
AIDS as a Gay Disease?
Features of the Bareback Video
Cultural Responses to the Bareback Video
The Language of the Bareback Experience
Plenitude and the Death Drive in Bareback Porn
PART III BETWEEN THE SHEETS: Porn Ethics and Personal Relationships
6 Strange Love, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Porn
Going Deep
The Porns of Our Lives
Dial M for Missionary
For Your Thighs Only
A Clear and Present Stranger
Enema of the State
Good Will Humping
7 Cheating with Jenna: Monogamy, Pornography, and Erotica
8 Celebrity Sex Tapes: A Contemporary Cautionary Tale
Defensible Taping
The Public Appeal
Sexual Appeal
The Allure of Taping
Motivations for Release
The Complications of Releasing a Sex Tape
When Trust Fails
A Failed Career Move
Why We Still Tape
PART IV TALKING DIRTY: Legal Issues and Free Speech
9 One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Pleasure: Obscenity, Pornography, and the Law
Defining “Obscenity”
Will We Know It When We See It?
Here We Go Again
Anti-Porn Feminists, or the Best Answer to Bad Speech is Less Speech
Conclusion
10 What’s Wrong with Porn?
Pleasure as Power
Feminist Porn
Discussion
11 Bumper Stickers and Boobs: Why the Free Speech Argument for Porn Fails
“I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!”
The Preacher and the Porn Star
Picnic Sex and the Prudes
“Don’t look, Ethel!”
Tease Me,Whip Me, Persuade Me
Biting the Bullet
Hard Cases
If Porn Isn’t Free Speech, What Is It?
PART V THE ART OF DIRTY: Porn and Aesthetic Value
12 The “Fine Art” of Pornography? The Conflict Between Artistic Value and Pornographic Value
Two Caveats
Distinguishing Interests and Values
Relations Between the Pornographic and the Artistic
13 An Unholy Trinity: The Beautiful, the Romantic, and the Vulgar
Erotica and Pornography: From the Romantic to the Vulgar
Aesthetic Contemplation: The Romantic and the Beautiful
14 The Problem with the Problem with Pornography
What is Pornography?
The Wrongness of Pornography
The Victims of Pornography
A Different Tack
PART VI PORN AND TECHNOLOGY
15 Something for Everyone: Busty Latin Anal Nurses in Leather and Glasses
The 1970s:Adult Film Theatres
The 1980s: Home Video/VHS
The 1990s: DVD
The Oh-Oh Age of the Internet
16 Sex, Lies, and Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality: Immersive Pornography
Welcome to the Hyperreal World
The Future Obsolescence of Real Women
Hyper-Romance is Porn Too
Down the Rabbit Hole: Sexual Deviancy Flourishes in Unbounded Realities
Conditioned to be Sexually Deviant
Indulging in Forbidden Fruits Online
User Malfunction: Virtue Theory for a Virtual World
The Pornographic Singularity:A Bleak Prophecy
PART VII KINK:Alternative Porn and BDSM
17 What Do Heterosexual Men Get Out of Consuming Girl–Girl Pornography?
“At the very least, curious”
What Do Jenefsky and Miller Say About Girl–Girl Pornography?
What Do Jenefsky and Miller Assume About Men,Women, and Pornography?
Lesbian Utopias and Heterosexual Space Invaders
A Crazy Little Thing Called Jouissance
Conclusion:The Ethics of Heterosexual Jouissance
18 Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The “Violent” Controversy Surrounding SM Porn
Aisha’s Coming Out
The Legal Controversy
Understanding the Context
Violence
Physical Violence
Phenomenological Violence
Epistemic Violence
Aisha’s Crossing Over
19 Ruminations of a Dominatrix: An Interview with Mz. Berlin
Notes on Contributors
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